Capcom Announces Surprising November Release For Resident Evil 6 (First Trailer)
One of the world's biggest video game franchises is getting a new title: Capcom today announced Resident Evil 6 [JP] for the Xbox 360, Sony PS3, and the PC. What's interesting is that the company also...
View ArticleSnake Camouflage: Japan Gets Exclusive Metal Gear Solid 3DS System
Resident Evil isn’t the only big video game series that made the news in Nippon today: Konami announced [JP] the so-called METAL GEAR SOLID SNAKE EATER 3D PREMIUM PACKAGE for the Japanese market. The...
View ArticleHitachi And Mitsubishi Stop Domestic Production Of TVs, Optical Discs
Two big Japanese electronics companies, namely Hitachi and Mitsubishi, are to stop producing parts of their product portfolio domestically: Hitachi announced [JP] it will end production of plasma and...
View ArticleReport: Olympus In Final Stages Of Negotiations To Partner With Sony
It would be a tie-up between two giants: Diamond Weekly, a major Japanese business journal, is reporting [JP] on its website today that scandal-hit Olympus is about to ink a capital and business...
View ArticleThe Nikkei: Sony Interested In Buying A 20%-30% Stake In Olympus
More news on the Sony-Olympus alliance that's supposed to be announced soon: Japan's biggest business daily The Nikkei is reporting today that big S is interested in purchasing a stake as large as...
View ArticleJapan’s NICT Creates Quantum Dots To Boost Optic Fiber Bandwidth By 7-10...
A team of researchers at the Photonic Network Research Institute of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has developed a new light source technology that might...
View ArticleNintendo Reports US$630 Million Net Loss Between April And December 2011,...
3DS sales have picked up lately, but Nintendo's financial numbers are still weak. Big N today released [PDF] another set of disappointing results for the first nine months of its fiscal year (April to...
View ArticleBookPlace DB50: Toshiba Introduces Android-Based Color E-Book Reader
Following Fujitsu, another Japanese electronics maker is ready to sell color e-book readers: Toshiba announced [JP] the so-called BookPlace DB50 today, a 7-Inch device that comes with direct access to...
View ArticleDisney, Q-pot Choco, Honey Bee: Japan Gets 3 Extra-Cute Android Phones
Android adoption is growing rapidly in Japan, with local handset manufacturers doing everything they can in order to meet the demands of customers in all segments of the population. One particularly...
View ArticleNEC Forecasts $1.3 Billion Loss, Ready To Cut 10,000 Jobs Worldwide
Bad news from Japanese tech powerhouse NEC: the company yesterday announced [PDF] a net loss of $1.13 billion in the three months through December 2011, compared with a net loss of "just" US$350...
View Articlenanox: High-Quality iPod nano Watch Conversion Kit
Do you own the latest version of the iPod nano (sixth generation)? Do you look for a way to turn it into a watch? If yes, then this watch conversion kit might be the right solution for you. Dubbed...
View ArticleWiGig: Panasonic Tablet Wirelessly Transmits A Full DVD Video In 60 Seconds...
WiGig, a multi-gigabit speed wireless communications technology, was first announced back in 2009, but it took companies like Panasonic quite a while to come up with applications that make use of it....
View ArticleMEDIAS ES N-05D: NEC’s New Android Phone Is 6.7mm Thin, Connects To Casio’s...
NEC did it again: about 11 months after unveiling the world's slimmest smartphone at that time, the company is ready to release another super-thin Android phone with a set of impressive specs (via...
View ArticleGnzo Is Instagram For Video And A Flashy Multi-Video Viewer In One
Gnzo, the video startup that made its debut at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2010 (it was called Gunzoo then), has its first consumer-oriented product ready. Named after the Japan-based maker itself,...
View ArticleManila-Based Social Music Service Twitmusic Makes It Into 500 Startups
A big domestic market of 92 million people, English as an official language, a large IT talent pool, and a strategic location in South East Asia: the Philippines surely has the potential to become the...
View ArticleMoglue Makes It Dead Simple For Anyone To Create And Publish Interactive Ebooks
Creating and publishing content-rich, interactive ebooks without programming skills or distribution power: that's the problem New York- and Seoul-based startup Moglue is trying to solve. The TechCrunch...
View ArticleDeployGate: Simple, Over-The-Air, Real-Time App Beta Testing Comes To Android
It's no secret that developing and testing Android applications can be difficult, but a newly launched solution called DeployGate intends to take the pain out of part of the process. In a nutshell,...
View ArticleMoglue Lets Authors Create And Publish Interactive Ebooks On iOS And Android...
New York- and Seoul-based Moglue (last year's TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing finalist) has rolled out a few changes to make it easier to create and publish interactive ebooks on smartphones and tablets....
View ArticleFrom The Infinity Ventures Summit In Kyoto/Japan: 12 Demos From Japanese...
Japanese VC firm Infinity Venture Partners has organized the so-called Infinity Ventures Summit Fall 2012 (IVS) in Kyoto/Japan earlier this week, a two-day web industry event that's taking place twice...
View ArticleFrom The Infinity Ventures Summit In Kyoto/Japan: 12 Japanese Startups Set...
Japanese VC firm Infinity Venture Partners is organizing the so-called Infinity Ventures Summit Fall 2013 (IVS) in Kyoto/Japan this week, an online industry event that's taking place twice a year. Like...
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